The Last Vestige of Babyhood

Heather is officially no longer a baby.

I held onto her babyhood as long as I could, but now that she's about to turn 3, she's reached a couple more milestones. For one thing, she's given up her naptime. After many nights of her being awake in her room until 9:30 or so, getting out of her bed to play with her dolls or sneaking into Wayne and Cole's room to see what they were up to when they all should have been sleeping, I decided It must be time to let go of the nap. It was not easy (for me) but now she goes to sleep as soon as her head hits the pillow in the evening.

For another thing, not only can she give herself a haircut, but she can also get dressed (almost) all by herself. See how proud she looks. You can't really tell from the picture, but she has two shirts on, and one of them is on backwards with the tag sticking up. She doesn't seem to mind. When she looked at her outfit in the mirror, she said, "It's perfect." She wasn't a baby for very long.

The kindergarten class took another field trip to a Catamount Arts performance of Hansel and Gretel, by the National Marrionette Theatre.
This was a gentler version than the original, while still holding somewhat true to the story. Their real mother lets them go into the forest to find berries (rather than a stepmother abandoning them in the woods.)

Angels protect them in the forest until morning.

After being pushed into the oven the witch turns into a gingerbread woman.

Cole is home sick today and the rain is rinsing all of our snow away. I have a couple of videos of W & C sledding for sometime when I get to the library.